Publication: Tales of Wonder, #4

Publication: Tales of Wonder, #4Publication Record # 363875 (View All Issues) (View Issue Grid)
Editor: Walter H. Gillings
Date: 1938-10-00
Publisher: World's Work
Price:
1/-^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
Pages: 132
Format:
pulp^?Magazine using the common pulp size: 6.5" by 9.5". For ISFDB purposes this may also be used as a designation for the quality of the paper. There are some untrimmed pulps that are as large as 8" by 11.75
Type: MAGAZINE
Cover: Tales of Wonder, #4 by W. J. Roberts
Notes:
- Trimmed edges.
- Page numbers run 1-128.
- Title given as "Tales of Wonder and Super-Science" on the contents page.
- Stated "Autumn, 1938" on the contents page. No month listed.
- No Editor listed.
- Cover art is not credited; the artwork is signed "W. J. Roberts."
- Interior art is not credited.
- Story art for "The Menace from Space" on pages 4 and 25 is not signed.
- Story art for "Out of the Past" on page 31 is not signed.
- Story art for "The Smile of the Sphinx" on page 42 is signed "Turner."
- Story art for "The Eternal Professors" on page 61 is not signed.
- Story art for "The Sea Terror" on pages 72 and 84 is signed "Turner."
- Story art for "The Third Vibrator" on page 94 is signed "Turner."
- Story art for "The Essence of Life" on page 105 is signed "Turner."
- "Readers' Reactions" is a letters column.

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Editor Title: Tales of Wonder - 1938 • [Tales of Wonder] • (1938) • edited by Walter Gillings [as by Walter H. Gillings]

Contents (view Concise Listing)

2 • The Aim of Science Fiction • essay by The Editor
4 • The Menace from Space • (1934) • novelette by John Edwards
4 • The Menace from Space • interior artwork by uncredited
31 • Out of the Past • short story by Lloyd Arthur Eshbach
31 • Out of the Past • interior artwork by uncredited
42 • The Smile of the Sphinx • novelette by William F. Temple
42 • The Smile of the Sphinx • interior artwork by Harry Turner
61 • The Eternal Professors • (1929) • short story by David H. Keller, M.D.
61 • The Eternal Professors • interior artwork by uncredited
72 • The Sea Terror • novelette by Edmond Hamilton (variant of The Sea Horror 1929)
72 • The Sea Terror • interior artwork by Harry Turner
94 • The Third Vibrator • (1933) • short story by John Wyndham [as by John Beynon Harris]
94 • The Third Vibrator • interior artwork by Harry Turner
105 • The Essence of Life • (1933) • novelette by Festus Pragnell
105 • The Essence of Life • interior artwork by Harry Turner
124 • Readers' Reactions (Tales of Wonder, #4) • essay by various
124 • Letter (Tales of Wonder, #4): A Glimpse of To-morrow • essay by Gerald Evans
125 • Letter (Tales of Wonder, #4): Artists Criticised • essay by Osmond Robb
127 • Letter (Tales of Wonder, #4): Reprints Best • essay by Charles Eric Maine [as by David McIlwain]

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Publication: Tales of Wonder, #4

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